Functions for data preparation
Importing data is the first of the many processes in data preparation. Importing data is a process of bringing data into your system from any external system using an external file or by establishing a connection to a live data source. In the following part, we will look at importing data that is stored as SPSS or SAS files and using an ODBC connection string to connect directly to an external live database system.
Data import from SAS, SPSS, and ODBC
Importing data into R or SQL Server tables is not the main focus of RevoScaleR
library, but since this is on the list, let's briefly look into it. In this manner, based on your data source, the RevoScaleR
package gives many abilities to connect to different data sources. Among these are also SAS and SPSS - two very broad and common statistical programs for data analysis and predictive analytics. We will simply focus on SAS software (https://www.sas.com/), SPSS Statistics, acquired by IBM in 2009 (https://www.ibm...